Matson orders three new cranes of dock for own terminal in the port of Honolulu

will be constructed by Mitsui Engineering &amp; Shipbuilding on behalf of Paceco

the company of American navigation Matson has ordered to the Californian Paceco Corporation the supply of three new destined cranes of dock to the Sand Island Terminal of the port of Honolulu and the modernization of others three already operating cranes in the terminal. The company has specified that the investment takes part of a program of potenziamento of the terminal managed from the Matson in the port of Hawaii of the total value of 60 million dollars that are started with the scope to equip the landing place for the arrival of the four new ships ordered from the company whose delivery will begin the next year.

the three new cranes, with an ability to raising of 65 long tons, will be realized by the Japanese Mitsui Engineering &amp; Shipbuilding (MES) on behalf of Paceco and will be taken in delivery the next year for being installed at the beginning of 2019. The three new means of raising will be used in order to replace as many old cranes of smaller abilities.

Two of the four new ships ordered from the Matson, that 259 meters will be long and will have a containerized ability pairs to 3.600 teu (never the most elevated reached for portacontainer realized in the USA), they are under construction near the ship yard Philly Shipyard of Philadelphia and will come completing in the third trimester of 2018 and in the first trimester of 2019. Others two ships, that 265 meters will be long and will have an ability to 3.500 teu, will be able to transport are container that rotabili and will be constructed in the ship yard of San Diego of General Dynamics NASSCO for being delivered at the end of 2019 and to half of 2020.